I regularly receive emails from people who say “What about me? I don’t have a thyroid! You’re not writing anything for me!” You’re always writing about hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism, but not about people with no thyroid.

Actually, this is not true. I write about people who have no thyroid all the time, but the people who don’t have a thyroid may not realize it — because their doctors have never told them that they are in fact considered “hypothyroid.”